Definition of tawdry

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Tawdry (superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors..

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Neat :: Neat (a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress..
Tawdry :: Tawdry (n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general..
Tawdriness :: Tawdriness (n.) Quality or state of being tawdry.
Gaudy :: Gaudy (superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious..
Meretricious :: Meretricious (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments..
Crude :: Crude (superl.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art..
Tawdry :: Tawdry (superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors..
Frippery :: Frippery (n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Tawdrily :: Tawdrily (adv.) In a tawdry manner.
Tawdry :: Tawdry (superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
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